Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that utility services had begun draining water from heating systems to prevent irreparable damage to pipelines. He also urged all Kyiv residents who had such an opportunity to leave the city immediately and move to other locations. In the following days, more than 600,000 residents left Kyiv. Over the course of the next days, Ukraine utility services worked round-the-clock to restore power and heat – only to have Russia once again target civilians, including the elderly, women and children. On the night of January 11-12, Russian troops launched a new attack on Kyiv’s critical infrastructure. The attack involved 293 drones and 25 ballistic missiles. After the new shelling, the electricity shortage in Kyiv worsened, even for critical infrastructure. Energy workers continued to work around the clock. Again, just as power and heat were nearing restoration, on the night of January 19-20, Russian forces launched a new attack on Kyiv’s critical infrastructure. The attack involved 339 drones and 34 ballistic and cruise missiles, and by 9:00 AM on January 20, 5,635 multi-story buildings were without heating. Almost 80 percent of these were buildings where heating had been restored after the Russian attack on the night of January 8-9. On the night of January 23-24, Putin’s Holodomor strategy continued as Russian troops launched a new attack on critical infrastructure facilities in Kyiv. The attack involved 351 drones and 21 missiles of various types. By 10:00 AM on January 24, more than 6,000 multi-story residential buildings were again without heating. Many of these were the same buildings that had lost heating as a result of the attacks on January 9 and 20, and for which heating had been restored in the following days. On the night of February 2nd-3rd, the air temperature in Kyiv dropped to -4°F (-15°C), a situation that Putin exploited by launching another massive attack on Kyiv electric and heating infrastructure. This attack was the most brutal during the entire four-year large-scale phase of the 12-year open Russian aggression against Ukraine. The attack involved 450 drones and 71 missiles of all types. Within a day, 1170 multi-story residential buildings in Kyiv were left without heating and to avoid serious damage to the heating systems, Kyiv utility services drained the water from the heating systems in 1100 buildings. The deliberate, repetitive nature of these attacks demonstrates a doctrine designed to weaponize civilian dependence on electricity – a doctrine that Russia and other adversarial states have closely examined in the context of their own planning against Western Power systems – especially the United States. A Warning for the United States The evidence thus presented leads to a stark and unavoidable conclusion that modern adversaries do not view electric power systems as neutral infrastructure or collateral damage. They view them as primary targets. Russia’s campaign against Ukraine demonstrates that attacks on the electric grid are, in effect, attacks on the civilian population itself. Electricity is the enabling system for heat, water, medical care, sanitation, communications, and survival in modern urban society. When the grid is targeted, civilians – men, women, children, the elderly, and the infirm – are the intended victims. The suffering of the Ukrainian people illustrates how thoroughly this doctrine has been operationalized. Russia’s detailed knowledge of Ukraine’s infrastructure, combined with its willingness to strike during extreme winter conditions, reveals a form of warfare that deliberately transcends the battlefield. This war doctrine is not an intended to degrade military capability; it is an assault on the basic conditions of civilian life. The repeated, timed attacks on power and heating systems in Kyiv underscore a calculated strategy to exploit infrastructure dependence to impose fear, displacement, and mass hardship.